- Isaac Mao
Isaac Mao (毛向辉) is a
blog ger from thePeople's Republic of China . He is co-founder of CNBlog.org and a researcher in social learning. In 2005, he started the movement for adopting Chinese bloggers on overseas servers.Mao is a venture capitalist, blogger, software architect, entrepreneur and researcher in learning and social technology. He divides his time between research, social works, business and technology. Fact|date=August 2008 He is now Vice President of United Capital Investment Group and Director to Social Brain Foundation, advisor to Global Voices Online and several web 2.0 businesses.
Mao is a co-founder of CNBlog.org and a co-organizer of the Chinese Blogger Conference (2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou).
Mao is a regular speaker/keynote to Wikimania, the Chinese Internet Conference and other global events on internet culture. As a trained software engineer, he has a long history developing both business and consumer software. He worked as a Chief Architect in the Intel HomeCD project and the Tangram BackSchool suite. Fact|date=August 2008
Recently, Mao got a lot of resonance in the technology and business world with his open letter to Google, Fact|date=August 2008 challenging the search engine giant to support anti-censorship efforts and change its strategy on China.
External links
* [http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6707.html The 'blog' revolution sweeps across China] , an article on New Scientists, November, 2004.
* [http://www.isaacmao.com/ Isaac Mao's blog]
* [http://www.isaacmao.com/meta/ English entries in Isaac Mao's blog]
* [http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9803915 Not Loosing Facebook in China - The Economist] , on internet in China and Isaac Mao views.
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